skimulator error message with Anaconda navigator on Windows 10

[Brendan Darrer]

Hi Everyone!

I am trying to run skimulator on Windows 10. It was installed using Anaconda navigator, with a python 3, Numpy, Scipy and NetCDF4 environment, from SKIM / SKIMulator. Can anyone help with the following error message, where I was attempting to run the parameter file params_2017v2_23W.py in the \example directory. I receive the same error if I just enter "skimulator" in any directory of the anaconda prompt.

I receive a similar error message on another linux/ubuntu machine installed with skimulator.

Error message in Anaconda prompt:

Code:

(base) C:\Users\pclink\Anaconda3\Scripts>skimulator C:\Users\pclink\skimulator\example\params_2017v2_23W.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "C:\Users\pclink\Anaconda3\Scripts\skimulator-script.py", line 11, in <module>
   load_entry_point('skimulator==1.0', 'console_scripts', 'skimulator')()
 File "C:\Users\pclink\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 484, in load_entry_point
   return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
 File "C:\Users\pclink\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 2707, in load_entry_point
   return ep.load()
 File "C:\Users\pclink\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 2325, in load
   return self.resolve()
 File "C:\Users\pclink\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 2331, in resolve
   module = __import__(self.module_name, fromlist=['__name__'], level=0)
 File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 983, in _find_and_load
 File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 967, in _find_and_load_unlocked
 File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 668, in _load_unlocked
 File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 638, in _load_backward_compatible
 File "C:\Users\pclink\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\skimulator-1.0-py3.7.egg\skimulator\__init__.py", line 62, in <module>
 File "C:\Users\pclink\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 1140, in resource_filename
   self, resource_name
 File "C:\Users\pclink\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 1647, in get_resource_filename
   return self._extract_resource(manager, zip_path)
 File "C:\Users\pclink\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 1668, in _extract_resource
   timestamp, size = self._get_date_and_size(self.zipinfo[zip_path])
KeyError: 'skimulator\\share\\VERSION.txt'

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